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1 LinuxSampler - modular, streaming capable sampler
2
3 Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 by Benno Senoner (benno@gardena.net)
4 and Christian Schoenebeck (cuse@users.sourceforge.net)
5 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Christian Schoenebeck
6
7
8 License
9 -------
10
11 The LinuxSampler library (liblinuxsampler) and its applications are
12 distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see COPYING
13 file), but with the EXCEPTION that they may NOT be used in COMMERCIAL
14 software or hardware products without prior written authorization by the
15 authors.
16
17 Also note that liblinuxsampler and its applications are linking against
18 other libraries; respect their licenses as well!
19
20
21 Description
22 -----------
23
24 LinuxSampler is sampler backend, thus server-like console application. It
25 provides a TCP based network interface with a custom ASCII based protocol
26 called "LSCP" to control the sampler and manage sampler sessions. You either
27 have to send commands manually to LinuxSampler, e.g. by connecting via
28 'telnet' or by using 'netcat' or you might want to use a graphical user
29 interface (frontend) like QSampler.
30
31 For more informations visit http://www.linuxsampler.org/documentation.html
32
33
34 Requirements on Linux
35 ---------------------
36
37 o A low latency enabled kernel
38 (see http://www.linuxsampler.org/faq.html#dropouts).
39 o At least ALSA and optionally JACK and their respective development
40 (header) files as MIDI input and audio output drivers.
41 o libgig and its development (header) files for loading Gigasampler
42 format files.
43 o libtool
44 o If you are compiling from CVS you need to have the autotools installed
45 (autoconf, automake (>= 1.5)).
46 o If you want to generate the liblinuxsampler API documentation you
47 need to have Doxygen installed.
48
49
50 Compiling on Linux
51 ------------------
52
53 a) Compiling and installing directly
54
55 The general procedure by calling './configure && make' on the source's
56 toplevel directory will compile and 'make install' as root will install
57 LinuxSampler on your system.
58
59 Note: if you are compiling from CVS you have to explicitly call
60 'make -f Makefile.cvs' before doing the above procedure. This will
61 generate all autotools managed build files.
62
63 LinuxSampler itself is a library called liblinuxsampler. You can
64 generate the API documenation for liblinuxsampler by explicitly calling
65 'make docs'.
66
67
68 b) Creating Debian packages
69
70 Simply calling 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' from the source's
71 toplevel directory will compile and build the Debian binary package.
72 The Debian package will be placed one directory above the source's
73 toplevel directory (thus ../).
74
75
76 c) Creating Redhat packages
77
78 You need to have the rpmbuild tool installed and properly configured to
79 create RPM packages. To create the RPM packages do the following:
80
81 * Get .spec file generated by ./configure and edit it as appropriate.
82
83 * Copy the source tarball to "/usr/src/<rpmdir>/SOURCES" directory,
84 where <rpmdir> is dependent to the system you are using. For SuSE
85 <rmpdir> will be "packages", for Mandrake <rpmdir> is "RPM" and for
86 Redhat / Fedora <rpmdir> always equals "redhat".
87
88 * Build the rpm(s) by invoking 'rpmbuild -bb <specfile>' from the
89 command line.
90
91 On success, the resulting rpm(s) can usually be found under the proper
92 "/usr/src/<rpmdir>/RPMS/<arch>" directory.
93
94
95 Compilation on OSX : Stephane Letz (letz@grame.fr)
96 --------------------------------------------------
97
98 The compilation on OSX currently uses an XCode project.
99
100 - Download and install the JackOSX package (www.jackosx.com)
101
102 - In the "osx" folder, possibly manually edit the version.h to change the version number
103
104 - In the XCode project, build the "LinuxSampler" target
105

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